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William Miller lived from August 1810 to 20 August 1872. He was a Scottish poet best known as the author of the nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie and is sometimes known as "The Laureate of the Nursery". The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

William Miller was born in Glasgow and lived in Dennistoun, a suburb to the east of the city centre. His ambitions to become a surgeon were thwarted by ill health, and instead he set up in business as a woodturner and cabinet maker. Meanwhile he began to write poetry and nursery rhymes, mainly in Scots. These appeared in a number of magazines of the day, and in 1842 a collected edition was published under the title: Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside. This contained the nursery rhyme for which he is now best known, "Wee Willie Winkie".

"Wee Willie Winkie" went on to achieve considerable popular success, and was translated into many different languages Male model william miller.